Mansions cemetery

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The building erected in 1860 and later expanded into a chapel on the Herrenhausen cemetery was the first Christian church in Herrenhausen

The Herrenhausen Cemetery (also more rarely: Herrenhausen Cemetery ) in Hanover is a listed cemetery under the sponsorship of the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Herrenhausen-Leinhausen . The location of the cemetery, which was already laid out in the Kingdom of Hanover and expanded several times to around 1.4 hectares today, is Kiepertstrasse 10 in the Herrenhausen district .

history

In the Middle Ages the village of Herrenhausen belonged to the church of the Marktkirche or the Kreuzkirche . After the Reformation in Hanover in 1544, Herrenhausen was incorporated into the Hainhölzer Church .

The impetus for the establishment of the Herrenhausen cemetery was the announcement by the city of Hanover that it would close the fully occupied Nicolaifriedhof and open a new cemetery on Engesohder Berg near Döhren , the Engesohde city cemetery . For this reason, the city canceled the rights of use to the old cemetery for the sub-villages of Vahrenwald , List , Hainholz and Herrenhausen on January 1, 1860 and bought their rights for a total of 1400 thalers as early as 1857 on the condition that they each have their own cemeteries.

In December 1857, Halbmeier Kollenrott and Brinksitzer Kriete, as members of the Herrenhausen community at the office in Langenhagen, presented a detailed plan for the Herrenhausen cemetery and its administration. This was followed by long and difficult negotiations with numerous agencies, above all with the Oberhofmarschallamt under Ernst von Malortie , who also wanted to be involved and to have part of the cemetery area reserved for the court servants living in the palace and garden district. These negotiations were sometimes turbulent. So reported the secret building officer Eduard Schuster , the representative of the Oberhofmarschallamt, of a meeting in which it

"... activity almost broke out among the members, and the pastor and I felt compelled to leave the conference."

Finally, a delegation from the mansions appeared in person directly to King George V to present his wishes and to ask that the matter be speeded up. A file dated June 29, 1859 stated

"That the King's Majesty had guessed that a separate cemetery should be laid out in Herrenhausen for the village community there and for the servants who had previously belonged to the suburbs of Königsworth and Schlosswende."

The land intended for the cemetery behind the Ebeling'schen Schmiede (today the Röttger petrol station ) was given up by the grocer Heinrich Engelke and the farmer Friedrich Kollenrott in exchange for money and other land.

A part of the new cemetery was assigned to the Oberhofmarschallamt, another to the "Stellwirthen". Since the churchyard was paid for from the municipal assets, some of the residents wanted the grave sites to be distributed according to house numbers, others by lottery . With the lottery ticket, each landlord finally got a hereditary burial place with the size of 8 grave sites determined in this way.

The building, initially erected around 1860 as a morgue with a bell tower, later expanded to become a cemetery chapel

The mansion master mason Gerber rebuilt the intended cemetery area with a solid wall and built the first morgue with a small bell tower . Long before the Herrenhausen Church was built , the building was the first Christian church in Herrenhausen. According to plans by Professor Uvo Hölscher , Gerber later expanded the hall by adding an extension to the chapel , which was then painted by the church painter Ebeling .

The architect Bäßmann designed and built the entrance gate for the cemetery, allegedly a copy of Goethe's Weimar summer house . The reference came from the report posted in the vestibule of the Herrenhausen Church by the Herrenhausen teacher Arnold Lütgert from 1925. However, recent studies have shown that apparently only the right door leaf, formerly made of wood, could be meant, which was later replaced by a metal door.

On the occasion of the first burial on April 7, 1860, the cemetery was inaugurated by Pastor Heumann .

During the First World War , the chapel bell was melted down for war purposes in 1917, along with two bells from the Herrenhausen Church . In 1925 the wife of the factory owner Louis Eilers donated a new bell for the cemetery.

In 1958 the interior of the chapel was redesigned. As part of this interior renovation, the glass painter Brenneisen created an altar window that shows the risen Christ.

In 2011 the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge searched the cemetery for the graves of 6 war dead. After these were not found, a leveling was suspected.

Grave slabs of Heinrich von Kohlrausch and Amalie Klein
Tomb of Jürgen Middendorff , operator of the Herrenhausen brewery

The celebrations on the occasion of the presentation of the renovation of the grave monument of Ernst von Malorties initiated by Gitta Kirchhefer were very popular , including the grandson Albrecht von Malortie or the honorary commander of the Order of St. John , Axel Freiherr von Campenhausen , as well as members of the Welfenbund . The Hanover Monastery Chamber in particular provided funding for the restoration .

Graves (selection)

In the Herrenhausen cemetery there are some listed graves and tombs of important personalities. According to the numbering in the general plan of the cemetery these are:

  1. Family grave of the family around master locksmith, senator and councilor Louis Eilers (1844–1917), founder of the later internationally active Louis Eilers Stahlbau GmbH & Co.
  2. Wilhelm Jordan (1842–1899), geodesist and professor at the Technical University in Hanover ;
  3. Ernst von Malortie (1804–1887), grave monument of the last court marshal in the Kingdom of Hanover, with one of initially two page figures by Carl Dopmeyer ;
  4. Family Carl Engelbert Maximilian of the bush (1860-1925), Duke of Braunschweigischer police chief, Chamberlain HRH Ernst August Duke of Brunswick and Lüneburg ;
  5. Christian Simonson family (1866–1951), stud director;
  6. Friedrich Markgraf family (1827–1908), master gardener, member of the church council and mayor of Herrenhausen;
  7. Louis Röttger family (1838–1917), master blacksmith, previously machine smith at the Wasserkunst Herrenhausen ;
  8. Family Heinrich Kohlrausch (1818-1899), colonel and adjutant of His Majesty King George V .;
  9. Jürgen Middendorff (1930–2006), owner of the Herrenhausen Brewery , Honorary Consul of the Kingdom of Norway , knight 1st class of the Norwegian Order of Saint Olav , holder of the Federal Cross of Merit ;
  10. Wilhelm Reinecke (1885–1954), Royal Hanoverian administrator of Herrenhausen Palace and Blankenburg Palace ; and Margarete Reinecke (1894–1981), owner of Gut Calenberg and Marienburg Castle ;
  11. Hofgarten inspector Franz Christian Schaumburg (1788–1868), among other things creator of the Georgengarten ;
  12. Georg Heinrich Schuster (1799–1890), the royal upper court building officer and deputy court marshal , referred to on the grave cross as "HG Schuster", built the water art , the iron arcade in the Great Garden, as well as greenhouses and bridges;
  13. Eduard Schuster (1831–1904), the secret building officer and architect, was in charge of the Herrenhausen Gardens from 1900 ;
  14. Diedrich Bredehorst , Royal Castle Kastellan ;
  15. Heinrich Engelke family (1816–1884), the Großköthner sold the land in 1860 for the later Herrenhausen cemetery;
  16. The Heinrich Dangers family (1792–1875), the Brinkitzer and master carpenter, was the community leader in Herrenhausen from 1834 to 1868;
  17. Kurt Lehmann (1905–2000), the professor and sculptor created numerous sculptures and reliefs for Hanover;
  18. Eduard Pestel (1914–1988), the professor was state minister and co-founder and member of the Club of Rome ;
  19. Auguste Otten (1899–1988), deaconess and from 1934 to 1974 parish nurse in Herrenhausen;
  20. Adolf Cillien (1893–1960), regional church councilor and member of the Bundestag , among other things co-founder of the CDU ;
  21. Family Arnold Kort-Lütgert (1862-1927); the vice-principal wrote the first chronicle of the cemetery in 1925 .

In addition, the architect Friedrich Lindau was buried here with a tombstone by the sculptor Kurt Lehmann.

See also

literature

  • Gitta Kirchhefer: A walk through the Herrenhausen cemetery , brochure with photos by Sergej Stoll and a numbered overview plan, Hanover: self-published, 2012
  • Peter Schulze : Cemeteries. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , pp. 193–196, here: p. 195.
  • Robert Rasch: From Haringehusen to Herrenhausen. 75 years of the Herrenhausen parish, revised font from 1931 by Walter Heinecke, continued by Hauns Blaume (also editor), self-published by the Herrenhausen parish, Hanover 1981

Web links

Commons : Mansions Cemetery  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • NN : Herrenhausen cemetery on the page herrenhausen-leinhausen.de of the Ev.-luth. Parish of Herrenhausen-Leinhausen
  • Gitta Kirchhefer: The Herrenhausen Cemetery on the ihg-herrenhausen.de page , the IHG - Interest Group Herrenhäuser Businesspeople e. V.

References and comments

  1. a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Gitta Kirchhefer: A walk ... (see literature)
  2. Gerd Weiß: Herrenhausen as a district up to the First World War. In: Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover, Part 1, [Bd.] 10.1 , ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller, ISBN 3-528-06203-7 , p. 201, and Herrenhausen Annex . In: List of architectural monuments according to § 4 (NDSchG) (excluding architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation), status July 1, 1985, City of Hanover , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , p. 15
  3. Peter Schulze: Friedhöfe (see literature)
  4. Hans-Heinrich Kirchhoff: Contribution to the cemetery anniversary ( Memento of the original from January 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , last accessed February 19, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.herrenhausen-leinhausen.de
  5. ^ Fritz Kirchmeier (person responsible): Hanover - Herrenhausen, Herrenhäuser Friedhof on the volksbund.de page , accessed on February 19, 2013
  6. Compare, for example, this picture documentation
  7. ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Eilers - Louis E. Stahlbau GmbH & Co .. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover, p. 152
  8. ^ Helmut Knocke : Lindau, Friedrich. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 405

Coordinates: 52 ° 23 ′ 33 ″  N , 9 ° 41 ′ 1.2 ″  E